Runaway Devaluation Quotes & Sayings

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them. — Erich Maria Remarque

Be a flower that bursts through the crack of cement. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

But when you started dating someone, you could never be sure what you were getting into. You had to give someone a chance to show you who he really was ... and believe him when he did. — Lisa Kleypas

As for the cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty. A pig producer who keeps an animal of comparable intelligence in this manner, however, is more likely to be rewarded with a tax concession or, in some countries, a direct government subsidy. — Peter Singer

A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to be on my deathbed before I stopped wanting
no, never mind, I was on my deathbed in the not-too-distant past, and even then I had the devil's own itch for my wife. -Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent — Lisa Kleypas

Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory. — Mariella Frostrup

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature. — Thomas Jefferson

The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school. — Mimi Rogers

[T]he Papist and the Arminian on the one extremity, enthroneth Nature, and extolleth proud merit, and abaseth Christ and free grace. The Familist, libertine, and Antinomian, on a contrary extremity and opposition, turn man into a block, and make him into a mere patient in the way to heaven. — Samuel Rutherford